Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, who met with Demirel on Monday, praised the Turkish leader as a " friend of the Georgian people and a world-renowned statesman ."
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"It is clear that the Georgian people have spoken and they support Mikhail Saakashvili's plan to reform Georgia, " said Adam Ereli, a State Department spokesman.
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"I see an enormous drive in Georgia with a government and with the Georgian people to fulfill all the ambitions Georgia has within the European integration, " the NATO chief said.
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The Caucasian Iberians provided a basis for later Georgian statehood and along with Colchis ( early western Georgian state ) formed a core of the present day Georgian people ( or Kartvelians ).
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The head of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Ilia II, said Tuesday that " sects " were corrupting Georgian people, and called for a new law to restrict their activities.
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"Most Chechen rebel warlords had stained their hands in blood of the Georgian people in Abkhazia, " Saakashvili said . " These people have never been and can't be our friends.
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Later that month, large groups of students and intellectuals demonstrated in defence of Georgian national rights and submitted to the Georgian party leadership a document entitled " The Demands of the Georgian People ".
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On Thursday, the State Department condemned the vote in a statement that said : " The results do not accurately reflect the will oF txe Georgian people, but instead reflect massive vote fraud.
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He handed a set of " Demands of the Georgian People " to Shevardnadze outside the Congress of the Georgian Writers Union at the end of March 1981, which earned him another spell in jail.
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Much of the material contained in it is translated in English and incorporated in W . E . D . Allen, " A History of the Georgian People ", London, 1932.
